Unable to switch to any console when in Xwindows

[drbenway]

Hi.

For some reason when in X I am unable to flip between console windows . I.e - pressing ctrl+ alt + F1-F8.

Instead pressing these keys just types a capital letter. - i.e ctrl+alt+F1 = P

I can still switch between console windows if I shut down X server.

Does anyone have any ideas or know when config change I can do to re-enable switching console windows in Xwindows?

Below are my installed compenents

- KDE 3.5.2
- ck-sources 2.6.16
- X org 6.8.2

I use xdm which loads kdm if this helps.

I had posted this in 'the other' forum however I did not get a resolution.

Cheers

[orionrobots]

Do you get any other strange keyboard mapping problems of any kind when editing files or typing into a terminal?

Maybe the keyboard set up in your xorg.conf file is barfed. How about you post the InputDevice section from your xorg.conf that describes Keyboard[0]?

There might (or might not) be something obvious in there.
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[drbenway]

Hi orionrobots.

Thank you for your response.

No I do not have any other keyboard mappings problems.

Here is the "InputDevice" section

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle,grp_led:scroll"
Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys"
Option "XkbLayout" "uk"
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Cheers

[Pulie]

Hi! Don't know if this helps, but it sure worked for me. I just upgraded to xorg 7.0 and after the emerge, I exeperienced same kind of problems you are describing. All Finnish native characters (äöå) stopped working and I couldn't change to any virtual terminals. Solution was this:

[mariourk]

That didn't solve the problem here. Does anyone know what causes it?
And more more important, does anyone know the solution to fix it?
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[taipan67]

I don't think Pulie's suggestion would work outside of Modular X. I'm using it myself, & have never had the function-key problem from xkeyboard-config that has affected so many others, but there's a thread on these forums somewhere in which someone with a US-layout cured it by changing "XkbModel" from "pc104" to "pc105" - maybe a similar change from "pc101" to "pc102" would be worth a try...

Without meaning to be rude, drbenway, are you wanting to use the Ukrainian layout or the United Kingdom one - if it's the latter, "XkbLayout" should be "gb". In fact, the "uk" layout isn't listed in my xorg-7 installation at all!
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[Fleta]

I have the same problem, I'm using 6.8.2 and here's the relevant xorg.conf section:

[Boesmann]

I can only switch between consoles if I start X as root.
I thought it was a security feature though...

[Hauser]